Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

And you see how quickly our world can be taken from us if we fall asleep. And so we have to see the cues.

We have to see the cues, this dictatorship of the monsters. How quickly it happens. We have to be vigilant.

We can't sit back and go, "Ah, life is good, I'm fine. You know, I've got food, I've got money, blah blah, I've got my house, I've got another car, I'm thinking about this, blah blah, I'm okay. I know he's a bad guy, but it's okay."

It's not okay! It's never okay.

This wasn’t the first time she struggled to secure a conviction. https://trib.al/XiMR72W

From #npr
"Carney has warned that the U.S. is increasingly seen as an unreliable economic partner, NPR's Scott Horsley says. The prime minister, who is backed by strong public support, has vowed that Canada will fight back. The latest tariffs affect only about 5% of U.S.-Canada trade. Horsley notes that retaliation can be effective: China’s response to U.S. tariffs last year helped lead to a de-escalation."
That's the only way to deal with a bully.

@Huntn00
I try desperately to not succumb to #ScandalFatigue, but it's impossible. 😞

Something I heard on the radio this morning made me think:

"What happened to all those people who were crammed into undersized Detention Centers or deported to a Maximum Security Torture Center in El Salvador?"

Are they still there? The Media seems to have lost interest after #AbregoGarcia was brought home.

#CECOT

Former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary @sarahmatthews1.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: "I imagine Melania's rate has gone up." 👀

Sarah says she never once met the First Lady when she worked for Trump, and imagines Melania's appearance fee has gone up in the wake of #NatalieGate. Family values!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117150843231892884

"Parents and spouses of people in the military have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades. But the AP found they’re now routinely being detained ... even as the military continues to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families."

"EVEN AS THE MILITARY CONTINUES TO RECRUIT BY ADVERTISING IMMIGRATION BENEFITS FOR ENLISTEES' FAMILIES"

Satellite images of the Ozon logistics warehouses in Dagestan and Adygea show both facilities effectively destroyed after Ukrainian drone strikes. Extensive fire damage is visible across both sites, which now appear beyond recovery and likely to burn out completely. #Ukraine

“Late Friday night, trade talks with Canada collapsed when Prime Minister Mark Carney — the former president of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, a guy whose knowledge of economics and history makes Scott Bessent’s bleatings sound pathetic — said he was tired of Trump bullying his country. He was blunt about the scam Trump’s trade people tried to run on #Canada, saying, simply:

“We were attacked.”

And they were… #Trump was demanding of Canada:

— Control over who Canada trades with.
— Control over Canada’s use of the French language.
— Control over Canadian-made cars.
— Control over what goods the Canadian government buys for its own use.
— And the ability to re-impose tariffs against Canada any time Trump gets irritated, for any reason.

That midnight, in retaliation for Carney refusing to bow to Emperor Trump, the US imposed fifty percent #tariffs on about twenty billion dollars’ worth of #Canadian goods destined for American consumers.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trump-revives-herbert-hoovers-nightmare-b3a?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

It’s horrific that we live in a timeline where reporters have to get government officials to say on record that the MMR vaccine is not lethal.

@dyckron The Iranian poet Marjane Satrapi said it best. And you could swap “Canadian” in for “Iranian” in her quote here, and it works perfectly.

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/703027

“Thank you for your service!”

https://apnews.com/article/uss-lincoln-soldier-immigrant-detention-trump-8697cd00f0b3099a0c03932e40f674db

The D.C. Bar Is Now Officially Deciding Whether to Investigate Chief Justice Roberts for Misconduct

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-dc-bar-is-now-officially-deciding?

⬆️ @gottalaff.bsky.social

>>>> #WaPo Exclusive: #Trump has claimed that the #WhiteHouse needs a massive new #ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.

>>[The security complex] ..secretly completed during the #Obama admin, can house dozens of people for up to multiple weeks..”

#Biden #billionaires #completeCapture BOTH parties

Some of us have spent years attacking Schumer and Jeffries for being useless, spineless, weak leaders of the Dems in Congress and calling for them both to step aside (which 60%+ of Dem voters want). We have the receipts to prove it. I, for one, have been more vicious about Schumer than Jeffries.

So, for some loud but thankfully unrepresentative Black Dems on this hellsite to now claim that anti-Black racism is behind the very understandable anger at Jeffries for secretly meeting with Kushner is just so pathetic and dishonest, and the worst expression of Republican-caricatured 'identity politics.'

Point to one single statement @AbdulElSayed has made that is antisemitic?

I can point to a dozen things off the top of my head that Trump has said or done that are antisemitic, including accusing American Jews of disloyalty and hosting a Holocaust denier for dinner.

-Measles is back
-Leprosy is back
-Tetanus cases are rising
-michael cohen
-Debt is $40 trillion
-Gas is expensive
-A new food is recalled everyday

Is America Great again yet???

Homeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Nevada (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/politics/trump-nevada-voter-election-fraud.html?unlocked_article_code=1.61A._q-Q.0vs9Zj_dqfYS&smid=nytcore-ios-share

I try really hard to not hate.

But I hate Donald Trump.

#US #Navy may strip #Black #WarHero name from ship, potentially renaming it for #Trump, sources say

#evil #WhiteSupremacy #racism #vainglorious #narcissism #military #USmilitary
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-black-war-hero-to-trump?cid=ios_app